This morning, minibus companies that operate in the arrivals area of Son Sant Joan airport stopped operating between 09.00 and 13.00 hours, in protest because they are not being allowed to collect customers due to pressure from taxi drivers.
The number of companies that have carried out the strike, some 27, total a fleet of one hundred minibuses, whose average capacity is between 15 and 20 passengers.
The companies that have carried out the strike claim that with the current transport law of 2017 "we are forced to have our services pre-contracted at source, in order to satisfy the taxi drivers' collective".
During the strike, the taxi service was brought to a near halt by the huge queues that built up, as well as the EMT and Aerotib services bus services.
"People don't understand what is happening, but we have to show our opposition to a regulation that prevents us from working and benefits the rest of ground transport. All we want is to be allowed to work and that customers have a free choice to opt for one type of transport or another," said the owners of the minibus companies.
AENA-Palma, aware of the problem, has called the Palma Local Police to check if any irregularity was being committed.
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Yup that’s Gatwick.. Haven’t gone near that place for 20yrs. When they put in the facial recognition at the gates. I know I am no oil painting but honestly, I thought, that’s it, I am never going to get out here . Stansted no better but at least you can entertain yourself on the little train going round in circles when it refused to stop at the gate. Heathrow fly BA ,only If going west. Otherwise Arrive in Singapore luggage in Newcastle. Oh they joys of travel.
Anyone that was on the Wizz air flight from Gatwick to Palma last night will know all about transport chaos. The service was shocking! Five hour delay due to a storm the previous evening, sent to the wrong boarding gate, and chaos queing and boarding due to a broken PA system. Palma airport is far more organised than that farce!